About 50 suspected kidnappers and armed robbers were yesterday afternoon paraded in Dan Anyiam Stadium Complex, Owerri, by the security agencies operating in Imo State.

AS the twin evils of bad governance and corruption continue to bedevil Nigeria’s underdevelopment, President Goodluck Jonathan, on the country’s 51st Independence Anniversary, declared that he has hard decision to improve governance to ensure greater transparency, probity, and accountability at all levels.

Chief Ayo Adebanjo, 83-year-old chieftain of the Pan Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, is not in high spirits talking about Nigeria at 51.

The first impression you get from Group Captain Salaudeen Latinwo, former military governor of Kwara State, is of a capable individual. At home, he works physically side by side with his domestic staff- answering the door, serving guests and even working the generator.

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, yesterday, ordered a 10-man team of Senior Advocates of Nigeria who are representing President Goodluck Jonathan over the petition filed by the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, to return to the court on October 4 to adduce further evidence showing that the April 16 Presidential election was not rigged in favour of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.